“Vendors of proprietary software such as Microsoft are busy
courting small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers with
their products. Windows Small Business Server, for example, is
designed to chunter happily away in a corner, managing the everyday
computing tasks for a smaller company. But open source software
companies are also targeting SMEs, offering lower cost, increased
flexibility and security as key benefits. Which approach should
SMEs take?“The ability to tinker with the source code in an open source
application means companies can adapt it to suit their own ends and
draw on input from a wide community of developers to help
them…”